This is the concluding part of the sensational germ murder case of colonial India.

A sizeable inheritance, a disgruntled half-brother, a killer bacteria and the plot of a Sherlock Holmes novel come together in the sensational royal murder involving the scion of a zamindari estate called Pakur.  The planning was so meticulous and the execution so clinical, that it made headlines around the globe, from London to Sydney to New York.

This case was unlike anything the world had seen outside the works of detective fiction. In this episode, I take a look at the sensational 'germ murder' of 1933.

Host: Suparna Chatterjee (www.suparnachatterjee.com)

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Books and references:

Wikipedia

⁠⁠Article in BBC.com/Asia⁠⁠

⁠⁠Calcutta High Court Judgment⁠⁠

⁠⁠Article in The Telegraph⁠⁠

The Poisoner of Bengal by Dan Morrison

⁠⁠How Bubonic Plague Reshaped Mumbai⁠⁠

⁠⁠How Bombay Fought the Plague⁠⁠

Podcast theme music by Khurshed Batliwala and B. Prasanna